Cooking apparatus.



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No. &65,952.

J. P. CALDWELL. COOKNG APPARATUS.

(Application filed Dec. 13, 1899.;

2 Shees-Sheet 2.

(No Model.)

Nrrnn 7 STATE PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN PARK CALDWELL, OF GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA.

C OO KING APPARATUS.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 665,952, datedJanuary 15, 1901.

Application filed December 13, 1899. Serial No. %0,145. (No model.)

To call whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN PARK CALDWELL, a citizen of the UnitedStates,residing at Gainesville, in the county of Hall and State of Georgia,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cooking Apparatus,`

of which the following is a fulland complete specification, such as willenable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same. i

This invention relates to steam cooking apparatus; and the objectthereof is to provide an apparatus of this class adapted for use with askillet, frying-pan, or other shallow cooking utensil and whereby avariety of cooking Operations may be performed.

My invention consists in the Construction and arrangement of parts,`ashereiafter fully set fOl''h. p i

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specfication, inwhich like reference characters den'ote like parts in the several views,Figure l is a central vertical section of a cooking apparatusconstructed according to my iuvention; Fig. 2, a plan View of a partthereof; Fig. 3, a central Vertical section of an element thereof notshown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 a plan view thereof.

In the practice of my invention I provide an annular base member 5, theupper portion 6 whereof is inward ly deflected and provided 4 with aplurality of perforations, one of which is shown at 7. The base 6 isadapted to be fitted into askillet, steam-pan, orsimilar utensil, -(notshown,) resting upon the bottom thereof, and water is poured between therim or side wall thereof and the upwardly-defiected portion 6 of thebase 5, passing through the perforations 7.

Upon the base 5 I superimpose an annular member 8, provided with acentral transverse foraminated diaphragm 9 and also provided at one sidewith a projecting handle 10. The annular member 8 fits theinwardly-directed portion 6 of the base 5 and is provided in the bottomportion with a plurality of perforations S i Upon the member 8 Isuperimpose an anmlar member ll, provided at the top with a peripheralbead 12 and at the bottom with an inwardly-defiected portion 13,provided with a plurality of perforations 14. Handles 15 are provided ateitherside of the member 11.

A member lG is superinposed upon the member 11, fitting within the upperportion or rim thereof and of the same construction as the member ll andprovided with a cover 16 which latter is provided with a' dependingperipheral flange 17, the lower portion 18 of which is inwardlydeflected. The cover 16 is also provided with a handle 19. A circulardisk member 20 is also provided and is formed with a rela ively-raisedcenter, slanting from said center to the periphery thereof, as shown inthe drawings, the said periphery being deflected upwardly to form avertical annular rim 21 and the central portion being struck np to forman annular collar 22, plurally perforated, as at 23. A cap 24 is"supported above and slightly extending beyond the transverse plane ofthe collar 22 by neans of a curved support 25. The disk member 20 in thepreferred assembling of "the several members of -my apparatus fitswithin the member 11, resting in engagement with the inwardly-directedportion 13 thereof. I provide another disk member 26 similar in allrespects to the disk member 20, eXcepting that the periphery 27 thereofisonly slightly upwardly directed, and said disk member 26 rests in themember 13, being supported in engagement with the inwardly defiectedportion ithereof.

In constructing the members 11 and 16, the cover 16% and the base 5 Iform the deflecte portions 13 13, 18, and 6, respectively, with aplurality of fiutings or corrugations 26 Whereby the several members fittogether more closely and securely in assembled posi'- tions.

In Figs. 3 and 4 I have shown the member ll above described providedwith an attach ment for cooking eggs and similar articles and whichconsists of an annular support 27, with which, at one side' of each, areconnected a plurality of conical cups 28, the apices of which aredownwardly directed and open at the top. Connected with the cups 28 andarrangedintermediate thereof is another similar cup 29. ,i

In using my improved cooking apparatus with the several parts andmembers thereof IOO assembled as shown in ig. 1 the base is 'set into askillet or other shallow utensil,

' As soon as steam begins to form in the skillet above mentioned itrises through the diaphragm 9, which serves to spread and disseminate itthroughout the interior of the member 8 above said diaphragm, and it isthen collected by the cup-like form of the disk member 20 and passedupwardly through the collar 22,' being emitted from the same through theperforations 23 and also at the top of the same, where it will be'dissemin'ated within the member 11 by the cap 24:. Similarly the steamis thence passed upwardly.

'through the collar 22 of the disk member 26, w and thence disseminatedthroughoutthe member 16, where it gathersin quantities, unless the cover16 be removed, which is done When the quantity of rising steamwarrantssuch procedure. It is manifest that ,the steam passing throughthe several members performs a series of cooking Operations and thatwhen said members have become so heated as to preclude unduecondensation of the steam upon the walls thereof-the potential of.

the steam is but slightly decreased in such passage. Each of the members8, ll, and 16 may be independently used in connection with the skilletor other utensil and all may be readily mptually detached, whichoperation is facilitated by the handles 10 and 15.

The economy of operation of' my improved cooking apparatus as describedis evident.

In using the device shown in Figs. ?rand 4 the member 11 is supported inor over a skillet in any preferred manner and eggs, custards, or .otherfood articles are readily cooked in the cups 28 and 29.

I do not limit myself to the precise form and arrangement of partsherein described, but reserve the right to vary the same within thescope of ny invention.

Having fully described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1.Theherein-described cooking apparatus, comprising a base adapted to beseated in a skillet or vessel, and a plurality of members adapted to besuperimposed upon said base, and comprising anannular member 8, whichfits the upper portion of said base member, which upper portion isinwardly deflected, said annular member 8 'being provided with atransverse foraminated diaphragm, an annular member ll provided at itsbottom with an inwardly-deflected portion 13 adapted to be seated withinthe annular member 8, and a conical disk member 20 which is centrallyperforatedand which is seated upon the inwardly-deflected portion 13 ofthe member 11, substantially 'as shown and described.

2. The herein-described cooking apparatus, comprising a base adapted tobe seated in a skillet or vessel, and a plurality of members adapted tobesuperimposed upon said base, and comprising an annularmember 8, whichfits the upper portion of said base member, which upper portion isinwardly defiected, said annular member 8 being provided with atransverse foraminated diaphragm, an annular member ll provided at itsbottom With an inwardly-deflected 'portion 13 adapted to be seatedwithin the annular member 8, and a conical disk member 20 which iscentrally -perforated and which is seated upon the inwardly-defiectedportion 1'3 of the member 11, said member 20 being provided with anannular collar 22 which surrounds said central perforation therein, andis provided with a cap 24:, whereby the steam passing through saidcentral perforation is disseminated through said disk member,substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 23d day ofNovember, 1899.

JOHN PARK CALDWELL.

Witnesses:

CHARLIE' S. MERCK, JAMES P. LEAGUE.

